Delta Government on Sunday said it had commenced the building of
centres for Joint Admission and Matriculation Board's (JAMB)
computer-based University Matriculation Examination (UME).
Mr Sunny Ofili, the Special Adviser on Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) to the state governor, made this known in an
interview in Asaba.
JAMB had, earlier in the year, announced that its UME would be
computer-based from 2015.
Ofili said that the computer laboratories were being established in
schools in every local government area in the state so as to provide
centres as needed by JAMB.
He, however, declined to give the number of schools slated for the
programme, saying, "We are still working on the right number and I
will give it to you when the number is determined".
He said that his office was collaborating with the state's Ministries
of Basic and Secondary Education and Higher Education, respectively,
to strengthen computer literacy in schools in the state.
He disclosed that the state government had trained teachers on
computer and equipped schools with computers for training of pupils
and students.
According to him, the measure is to give students in the state
necessary computer education and ensure that they can compete
favourably with their counterparts anywhere in the world.
Ofili decried the attitude of some school heads who denied pupils and
students access to the computers in their schools.
He said that such attitude was against government's policy of making
pupils and students computer-literate, and warned that any school head
that violated the policy would be sanctioned.
He also disclosed that the government had concluded plans to establish
an Information Communication Technology (ICT) park at Ugbolu, near
Asaba, under a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) arrangement.
He said that the government was partnering Omatek, an ICT firm, on the
project, adding that work would commence on it before the end of the
year. [NAN]
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